While he lay dying on her floor she dragged him to the kitchen and slipped a plastic bag under his head to stop any of his blood seeping into her carpet, the Old Bailey heard on Thursday (March 8).

Tamang, of Victoria Road in Aldershot, then went to Mr Limbu's home nearby armed with a traditional Nepalese kukri knife, famously used by the Gurkhas, and a rolling pin, and let herself in with his keys.